Ricky Swallow
The bricoleur 2006
Private collection
© Ricky Swallow
- In this issue:
- Ricky Swallow
- Together Alone
- NGV Program Highlights!
- Support Your NGV
- What’s On
- Subscribing & Unsubscribing
Top image:
Ricky Swallow
History of holding 2007 (detail)
Collection of the artist, Los Angeles
© Ricky Swallow
Image courtesy Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Ricky Swallow: The Bricoleur
Don’t miss Ricky Swallow: The Bricoleur – an exhibition of the internationally acclaimed Victorian artist’s recent work. Swallow’s work pays tribute to contemporary culture and the everyday – his subjects range from sneakers, skulls and the sea; to guitars and the musicians who played them.
16 OCT 09 – 28 FEB 10
Venue Galleries 15–16, Level 3, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
ngv.vic.gov.au/swallow
Exhibition entry fees apply
Purchase tickets online
Principal Partner Macquarie Group
Program highlights for this exhibition include:
- Workshop: Old School Drawing*
Sat 7 Nov, 1.30–4.30pm
Consider some traditional drawing techniques with artist Anna Hoyle. Reflect on Ricky Swallow’s reference to vanitas and to the real and unreal in his art. Set up still life compositions inspired by Swallow’s work, experiment with light, shadow and perspective. All materials included. Exhibition viewing not included but recommended before the workshop.
Tutor Anna Hoyle
Cost $55 Adult / $50 NGV Member - Floor Talk: Future Proof A Philosophy of Archaeology
Sun 29 Nov, 12pm
Speaker Professor Tim Murray, Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University
Cost Exhibition entry fees apply
Maticevski, Melbourne (fashion house)
Toni Maticevski (designer)
Silk puffer evening gown 2007 autumn-winter 2008 (detail)
Collection of the artist, Melbourne
© Toni Maticevski
Together Alone:
Australian and New Zealand Fashion
Delve into the NGV Fashion & Textiles Collection to see innovative and vibrant fashion from Australia and New Zealand in Together Alone.
01 OCT 09 – 18 APR 10
Venue Myer Fashion & Textiles Galleries, Level 2, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
ngv.vic.gov.au/togetheralone
Principal Sponsor Myer
Program highlights for this exhibition include:
- In Conversation: Design across the ditch
Thu 12 Nov, 6pm
Join us for a conversation between two of the leading figures in the Australian and New Zealand fashion industries, as they discuss contemporary fashion design and the exhibition Together Alone.
Speakers Karen Webster, Festival Director, L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival and Paul Blomfield, Chairman of Fashion Industry New Zealand
Cost $18 Adult / $12 NGV Member / $14 Concession / $10 Student - Artist Floor Talk: Akira in Conversation
Fri 27 Nov, 1pm
Followed by double film screening.
Speakers Akira Isogawa, fashion designer and exhibiting artist and Katie Somerville, Curator, Australian Fashion & Textiles, NGV
Cost Free
- Double Film Screening: Akira Isogawa
Fri 27 Nov, 2pm & Sun 29 Nov, 3.30pm
- The Closet Tales of Australian Fashion: Akira Isogawa
(2007, 24 mins, rating exempt)
A rare insight into what it takes to succeed and survive in the highly competitive and ever changing fashion industry. From inception of ideas through to the execution of a complete collection, we follow the designers through the creative highs and the commercial lows of putting a range together. - Art In Reverse: The Vintage Dolls, Akira Isogawa
(2007, 17 mins, unrated)
A locally made series looking at Australian artists, sculptors and designers, each episode takes a completed work or exhibition and then travels backwards through the process of its creation to the point of origin.
Cost Free
- The Closet Tales of Australian Fashion: Akira Isogawa
- Floor Talk: Exhibition Introduction
Sat 28 Nov, 11.30am
Speakers Beckett Rozentals, Assistant Curator, Australian Fashion & Textiles, NGV
Cost Free
NGV Programs
Image: NGV Photographic Services
NGV Program Highlights
- Double Film Screening: Mini Indigenous Film Festival
Sun 8 Nov, 1–4.30pm
Supported by Vic Health
- 1–2.30pm Bit of Black Business
- 3–4.30pm River of No Return
Cost Free
- Performance: Cathedral (welcome)
Sun 15 Nov, 11.30am–1pm
Artist Domenico de Clario welcomes you to his cathedral. See and hear live art in the artist’s keyboard and confessional installation Black Expanse (Father).
Presenter Domenico de Clario, exhibiting artist
Cost Free - Fantasia: Chinoiserie Short Course
Sun 15, 22 & 29 Nov, 2–3pm
Venue NGV Australia- Sun 15 Nov Here Be Dragons: Imagining the Other
The images of Asia and Asian peoples created by European artists and craftsmen in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are complex and multivalent.
Speaker Dr Matthew Martin, Assistant Curator, Decorative Arts, NGV - Sun 22 Nov Sharawadgi and the Misty Mountains: Nature in Chinoiserie
Landscapes, gardens and pavilions were an integral feature of Chinoiserie decoration, illustrating a European fantasy of Asia.
Speaker Carol Cains, Curator, Asian Art, NGV - Sun 29 Nov Contemporary Chinoiserie
How is the notion of Chinoiserie enacted within contemporary art contexts?
Speaker Emma Mayall, Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art, NGV
Cost per lecture $18 Adult / $12 NGV Member / $14 Concession / $10 Student - Sun 15 Nov Here Be Dragons: Imagining the Other
- Workshop: Art Meditation
Wed 18 Nov, 11am
‘Everyone is an artist’, was famously claimed by Joseph Beuys, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Beuys was convinced by the transformative powers of art, and strongly believed that art affects audience and artists alike. Join us in artmeditation and take the opportunity to sit and focus on a work for an extended period.
Facilitator Raphael Zimmerman, art practitioner
Cost $15 Adult / $10 NGV Member / $12 Concession and student (bookings essential) - Tot Spot: Outside Art
Ages 3–5
Mon 23 Nov, 10–11am & 11.15am–12.15pm and Thurs 26 Nov, 10–11am
A spot of quality time for pre-schoolers with their parents or carers. Each session includes Gallery exploration and art activities. Every November we explore art outside and make art sculptures in the garden.
Cost $14 (bookings essential, includes a complimentary tea/coffee voucher) - Lecture: Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach in Focus
Wed 25 Nov, 6pm for 6.30pm
In conjunction with the National Portrait Gallery, the NGV is pleased to present this lecture by William Feaver, international guest speaker and world renowned specialist on Freud and Auerbach. Do not miss this opportunity for insights on two of the current leading contemporary portrait painters.
Speaker William Feaver writer, art historian and curator
Cost $18 Adult / $12 NGV Member / $14 Concession / $10 Student (includes complimentary glass of sparkling wine on arrival) - Lecture: Masters of Benefaction – Great Gifts of Art
Tue 1 Dec, 6pm for 6.30pm
What are the real stories behind building the NGV Collection, one of the finest in the world?
Presenter Dr Gerard Vaughan, Director, NGV
Cost Free (bookings essential, complimentary glass of sparkling wine on arrival)
Edward Burne Jones (designer)
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., London (manufacturer)
St Paul, from the Chapel of Cheadle Royal Hospital, Manchester 1892 designed, 1911 manufactured
Support your NGV
To ensure the NGV remains a vibrant and stimulating cultural destination that continues to inspire our own and future generations, need your support.
A rare opportunity to acquire a Morris & Company stained glass window has become available. The window, depicting St Paul, was designed by Edward Burne-Jones in 1892 and produced by Morris and Co. in 1911 for the Chapel of the Cheadle Royal Hospital, near Manchester. Though the generous support of patrons, we have raised almost sixty percent of the $130,000 needed. We invite you to support us by making a donation to the NGV and help us to acquire this outstanding and important work.
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